Quotes About Pity

Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.

They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.

The girl looked like walking death," Nancy recalled. "To leave somebody that sick in a bus terminal? I just didn't get it.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

Beautiful and wealthy as she was, I felt sorry for her. I thought she probably wouldn't realize what she had lost until it was much too late.

Beautiful and wealthy as she was, I felt a little sorry for her. I thought she probably wouldn't realize what she had lost until it was much too late.

There was a quality about him - fragile, but at the same time steely and undaunted - that managed to awaken your sense of pity without irritating you at the same time. In a world where no kid can really afford to be helpless, where most of us risk our lives in a matter of course, that was quite a hard balance to achieve.

A typical master. Right to the end, he didn't give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I'd have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Squirrelpaw felt fur brush against hers as Stormfur bounded past. He headed straight for Brook, and the two cats touched noses with such tenderness that Squirrelpaw felt a rush of pity. It was all too clear that Stormfur had more heartbreak ahead of him, when the time came to leave the Tribe she-cat for a second time.

Pity," Lionpaw commented as the WindClan apprentice caught up to him. "I was looking forward to seeing you bounce all the way to the bottom of the mountain.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

A wise man will not trust too much those who admire him, even for his wisdom. He knows that an admirer is never truly satisfied until he can substitute pity for his admiration and disdain for his applause. Our admirers are always on the lookout for evidence of our collapse. They find a solace in the fact that our superiority was transitory and that we end as they do—old and useless.

Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.

When you think of the material God has to work with," he said, "you have to feel sorry for Him, sometimes.